582 CY

Events

In this year

• Mordenkainen uses powerful cloning magic to replace the slain members of the Circle of Eight. However, the clones take too long to develop, and the circle is unable to prevent the Greyhawk Wars. (LGJ #0 p.6)
• Lord Robilar is hired to accompany monks from the Dark Moon Monastery to Castle Greyhawk to rescue Zuoken. The expedition fails, but he finds the Orb of Opposition, causing him to switch places with his evil doppelganger Bilarro. (Expedition to the Ruins of Greyhawk p.17)
• The Second Unhuman War reaches Greyspace. An invading fleet of scro Mantis ships link up with the Borka Retribution Fleet and battle with the elven Imperial Fleet based on Greela. (Dragon Annual 1 p.46)
• Umenyeh steals the Thrice-Damned Tome of Anashelaq from Calbut as he flees the city during the Stonefist invasion. (LGJ #4 p.7)
• A crypt thing appears in the gnomish silver mine of Sourlode. (From the Ashes, Campaign Book p.28)
• Forces of Ratik, allied with the Frost Barbarians, occupy the Loftwood and prepare for an assault on Johnsport. The Duchy of Tenh quietly supports the Frost Barbarians by allowing access to Bandit Kingdoms, who trade in weapons. (Five Shall Be One p.4)
• Conflict continues among the northern barbarian tribes. Frost Barbarians control the pass south of the Hraak Forest. Ice Barbarians make naval raids against Stonefist. (Five Shall Be One p.4)
• The Snow Barbarians raid the Great Kingdom and Sea Barons shipping. The Snow Barbarians assist the Frost Barbarians, but their king opposes joining the Frost Barbarian alliance with Ratik, fearing an invasion of the Bone March will lead to a larger conflict with the Great Kingdom. (Five Shall Be One p.4)
• On Freeday, Harvester 28, the first public vote for the Public Council of Greyhawk is held in the Free City of Greyhawk. Voting costs one silver piece, and the Oligarchy fails to prohibit casting multiple votes, allowing power groups to easily bankroll elections. The winners include a talking goat and a priestess of Vecna, who is swiftly executed. (TAB p.65)
• Turin Deathstalker leaves his role on the Directing Oligarchy the Free City of Greyhawk to serve as commander of the Safeton garrison during the Greyhawk Wars. (From the Ashes, Campaign Book p.4; TAB p.116)
• Late this year, the mysterious Hermit appears in Wavenair. (From the Ashes, Campaign Book p.28-29)
• Late this year, Old Mother Grubb's House of Fortune is discovered to be run by vampires after a paladin of Pelor is killed there. It is burned down and an orphanage is built on its site. (From the Ashes, Campaign Book p.11)

Greyhawk Wars

• A rumor spreads through the barbarians of the Thillonrian Peninsula that four of the five legendary Swords of Corusk have been found, and that once the fifth is found, a Great God of the North would unify the barbarians and lead them to greatness. The prophecy is taken seriously by the barbarian tribes, but the sword is never found. (From the Ashes, Atlas p.6)
• Greyhawk Wars begin. A series of small regional conflicts erupts into a continent-wide war.
• Iuz the Old, masquerading as the barbarian god Vatun, declares himself Great God of the North and unifies the Fruztii, Schnai and Cruskii barbarians. The Hold of the Stonefist makes a brief pre-emptive attack on the barbarian horde, but is easily routed. Within weeks, the Stonefist leader Sevvord Redbeard allies himself with "Vatun" under magical compulsion. (From the Ashes, Atlas p.6; Player's Guide p.10; Wars, Adventurer's Book p.7)
• Sevvord Redbeard becomes increasingly violent and ruthless. He declares a new era of conquest. (Wars, Adventurer's Book p.7)
• Stonefist moves through the Thunder Pass into the Duchy of Tenh for the first time in over thirty years, making an unexpected attack on the city of Calbut, slaughtering all men. (From the Ashes, Atlas p.6; Realm of Dust; Wars, Adventurer's Book p.7-8)
• Duke Ehyeh of Tenh takes to the field, planning to gradually raise an army while the Stonefist army is expected to spend weeks looting Calbut. Instead, Redbeard forces his men south. Within five days he lays siege to the Tenha capital of Nevond Nevenend. Without Duke Ehyeh's presence, the city folk panic and riot, and Redbeard captures the city. Tenh falls to Stonefist. Ehyeh and his court are given refurge in Radigast City in the County of Urnst, but the Duke's reputation has collapsed. (From the Ashes, Atlas p.6; Realm of Dust; Wars, Adventurer's Book p.7-8)
• In the Bandit Kingdoms, the Grand Clans of Grosskopf begin raiding Tenh again. (LGG p.26)
• Vatun orders the Suel barbarians to invade Ratik. The barbarians refuse to break their long-standing alliance with Ratik against the Bone March, and resent Stonefist's decision to blockade weapons shipments from the Bandit Kingdoms to the barbarians. They begin to doubt Vatun, and the barbarian alliance collapses only a few months after it began. (From the Ashes, Atlas p.6; Wars, Adventurer's Book p.8-9)
• Rise of Turrosh Mak in the Pomarj. (Slavers p.120)
• Wilbrem Carrister betrays the Trade Council of Hardby to the city of Greyhawk, gaining command of the Hardby Marines and the title of Military Governor of Hardby (Dungeon #109 p.96)
• Greyhawk Mountaineers are garrisoned in Hardby in response to attacks from the Abbor-Alz. (Dungeon #109 p.96)

Around this year

• Pasha Jadhim/orem of Tusmit deposed by Faris Muammar Quaran. Jadhim/orem is exiled. The new ruler allies Tusmit with Zeif. (LGG p.116)
• By this year, the Cruski barbarians have regained Utsula. (LGG p.106)

Publications

The following publications are set in 582 CY:

• The City of Greyhawk (1989)
• WGS1 Five Shall Be One (1991)
• WGS2 Howl from the North (1991)

Notes

Bastion of Faith (1999) p.44 asserts that the conquest of the Shield Lands occurred in 582 CY. However, Wars (1991), Adventurer's Book p.9, more clearly asserts that Iuz's conquest of the Shield Lands took place in Flocktime 583 CY.

The incorrect date of 582 CY is perhaps a misreading of From the Ashes (1992), Atlas p.6, which notes that the fall of the Shield Lands took place after the fall of Tenh in 592 CY but before the Battle of Critwall Bridge in 583 CY. However, the original source, Wars, makes it more clear that fall of Shield Lands occurred after Iuz returned to his homeland in 583 CY, after his conquest of the Horned Society in Coldeven. The Battle of Critwall Bridge took place soon after the fall of the Shield Lands.